Poor Marius. At 10 a.m. Sunday morning, the young giraffe was put down by his minders at the Copenhagen Zoo, despite the fact that he was perfectly healthy (and utterly adorable). Then, with ...

The killing of Marius the giraffe at a zoo in Copenhagen surprised many people around the world — and shocked quite a few — but it was no isolated incident. Also put down by European zoos in the name ...

"The Marius Effect" and our troubled relationships with other animals Last weekend a young healthy male giraffe named Marius was killed at the Copenhagen Zoo because he was considered to be a "surplus ...

Another day, another giraffe named Marius set to be killed by a Danish zoo. We wrote on Monday about how the Copenhagen Zoo killed, skinned, and fed to lions a perfectly healthy giraffe named Marius.

"I can't believe it. We offered to save his life. Zoos need to change the way they do business." (Robert Krijuff, Director of a wildlife park in the Netherlands) Yesterday I wrote about the plight of ...

The Danish zoo that earned the ire of the animal-loving world for killing Marius the giraffe (and then feeding him to lions in front of a class of children) is under attack again for euthanizing four ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Animal lovers enraged by Copenhagen Zoo's decision to kill a giraffe last week could barely contain their anger when a second Danish zoo said it might put down a another of the ...